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Bad Uok: Enter

Read "Enter" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

L'inizio è sorprendente e fuorviante. Sorprendente perché a dar retta all'immagine di copertina dai richiami ironicamente sadomaso, non ci si aspetterebbe un'apertura dove il pianoforte occupa uno spazio dilatato da poche note, fatte risuonare con profondità emotiva, in un clima austero e rigoroso. Fuorviante perché il resto del CD è tutta un'altra musica, ricco di colori, ...

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Umberto De Marchi: Domino

Read "Domino" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

Di Umberto De Marchi è interessante sapere che, oltre a essere un ottimo pianista, è un tecnico musicista presso dei centri per diversamente abili. In questi contesti ha potuto sperimentare un modo diverso di fare musica, tesa a far star bene qualcuno, lontano da giudizi tecnici ed estetici. A riguardo lui stesso dice che «Lavorare in ...

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Markus Pesonen Hendectet: Hum

Read "Hum" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

Il Markus Pesonen Hendectet è un gruppo di undici musicisti, prevalentemente danesi e tedeschi (anche se il leader è il chitarrista finlandese Markus Pesonen), che si muovono fra Copenhagen e Berlino per cercare un punto di equilibrio fra il rock progressivo e la musica classica contemporanea, senza rinnegare il linguaggio jazzistico moderno che li accomuna. In ...

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Acuna - Hoff - Mathisen: Barxeta

Read "Barxeta" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

With Jungle City (Alessa, 2009), Norwegians Jan Gunnar Hoff (keyboards) and Per Mathisen (bass) documented their meeting with Peruvian-born Alex Acuña, a Weather Report alum who leapt onto the international stage, first as percussionist and then kit drummer, on the fusion super group's Black Market (Columbia, 1976) and Heavy Weather (Columbia, 1977). That, after a first ...

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Sudo Quartet: Live at Banlieue Bleue

Read "Live at Banlieue Bleue" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni

The pan-European Sudo Quartet is comprised of four true heroes of free improvisation: French double bassist Joëlle Léandre; Portugese violinist Carlos Zingaro; Italian trombonist Sebi Tramontana; and German drummer Paul Lovens. All have played together in various formats for more than two decades, playing contemporary music, free jazz and spontaneous, on-the-spot improvisations, expanding the spectrum of ...

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The Fat Babies: Chicago Hot

Read "Chicago Hot" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza

by Jerry D'Souza

What goes around comes around and time stands still in the future. The Fat Babies shows that, playing tunes from the '20s and '30s with exemplary flair. In this group, nostalgia turns out to be downright delicious.The septet is mellifluous as it unveils the heat and fervor of ragtime in a confluence that packs ...

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Jason Marsalis: In A World Of Mallets

Read "In A World Of Mallets" reviewed by Chuck Schultz

by Chuck Schultz

On a drum kit, Jason Marsalis often goes several directions (meters, not Meters) at once. On vibraphone, as he demonstrates on In A World Of Mallets, it's more a matter of smoothing out many segments into a continuous whole. Over the course of the album he invokes bells, chimes and the signature tunes of cozy wall ...

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Hristo Vitchev Quartet: Familiar Fields

Read "Familiar Fields" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann

The nine original compositions that make up Familiar Fields were conceived by composer/guitarist Hristo Vitchev between the releases of Song for Messambria (First Orbit Sounds, 2009) and his seven-movement Perperikon Suite (Self Produced, 2011). Vitchev wisely decided that these pieces deserved a home of their own, and that choice is more than validated here. Sharing instrumental ...

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Ches Smith and These Arches: Hammered

Read "Hammered" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

Freschissimo di stampa, ecco il secondo album del gruppo diretto da Ches Smith, dopo Finally Out of My Hands, del 2010. Per l'occasione, si unisce al quartetto-base Tim Berne, e come si capirà facilmente non si tratta di particolare di poco conto. E non è forse neppure il caso di sottolineare che con Berne il giovane ...

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TwinKeys - Esther Flückiger & John Wolf Brennan: Tarkus and Other Love Stories

Read "Tarkus and Other Love Stories" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

Il pianista John Wolf Brennan, che negli anni Novanta e fino al 2005 era stato l'animatore e uno dei pilastri del quartetto Pago Libre, negli ultimi tempi sembra privilegiare la dimensione cameristica, in piena solitudine o con collaborazioni molto mirate: come capita in Twinkeys, duo di recente costituito assieme alla pianista Esther Flückiger, interprete anche di ...


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